I'm working with XML in AS3. I'm loading in some xml that has dates in a format like:

2011-1-12-10-00-a

I am converting those to actual Flash Date so I can compare them and use the methods of the Date class, etc. I would prefer to convert them once and then store them back in the XML node they came from.

Is it possible to store complex values like date or what have you in an XML?